The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 30, 1906, Page 12

y of the rage- the latest like that was n While a was goin, e, sighted the one hope for life to the fast wes thet e rocky, dan- Bamfleld and take saster to fhe British ip Quadr: then at eld Creek. The steam- the wreck in time— sband and wife gazed with pale faces—wi uld leave the light— t see & exclaimed foot before you on Paterson eghast, blow you into tke ross the bogs is n's daughter,’ “and I am going.” began to prepare for The children white faces, but nd @14 not try to prevent her, were ten men clinging to the there, with the seas sweep- them and threatening every them to the bbttom ocean. with you,” sald Paterson is wife, pale, but steady- opened the door and into the storm Her Superb Courage pact of the mad gale t sen wes blown about but concentrating her nd creeping as close to the t able to e rocks. once to row On the to w way t Quadra was creek. As soon ss Cape Boele was rounded the bark was sighted. She swas in a tiable condition bowsprit gone a zen mests swept of lumber wast seams. Captain e men were hud- They had seen th e had srrived juet on in men were completely hour later wo ve seen their doom. Even as it was, the Quaedra had a difficult task to per- form. Ehe could not stand in close on f fearful see, end the ould be done was to bear possible and send a Yve men menned it, end after tern of the Colome, they aocoun scued, mnd rowed to h stéamed immediate- The Coloma salled from Everett De- cember §, den with lumber and bound for Ban Diego. Captain Allison, young man with a strong, westher- beaten fece, told the story of the Colo- me's experience es he stood on the Quadrs’s deck. The Captain’s Tale “Yes, the o0ld Colome's st the bot- tom,” he said. “We sailed from Ever- ett December 6, and we had a hard time from the hour we dropped our tow, When we started there wes & : #tiff breeze blowing and gradually it Tose 10 & gele, All the day of the 6th we carried close reefed is and ; beat gbout trying to dvold treach- erous coast of Vancouver, ma was heavily laden, and sl {lowed iz the trough of the sess. Af- {ter she had rolled a while I kr | would not-iast, so-when-about-3 Svi HOW HRS. MINNE. T ON FOOT, = »w Wy HADE A TERRIBLE JO THROUGH A A K COLOMA WERECKED e OFF CAPE BEALE orning of th there came rash which nded 4 ere tearing herself to pieces t surprized The mizzenmast board, and the spars bat- el with every sweep of Presently the seams of the began o open. 1 knew then but by ing we tried of could old bark was water- seas swept her from We clung to the life- rning came we tried ke a raft would - carry couver Island coast, but e fearful one. FHowever, age to lash some of the nber and spars together, and f gleam o at we 1 yet be saved mber of a sea came Tushing ng and took our r off. After that we gave up 1 t finally we knew that the lighthouse keepers had seen our ress signals, and so we waited. We didn’'t. know then that it w be ‘a . but it was, how grateful the ‘ thin ¢ not thé only wreck in which Mre. Paterson has shown the stuff she is made of, for on the occasion of the awful disaster to the Valencia it was Mr Paterson who wired the news to Victoria, and It was owing to her that the steamers bent on rescue arrived at the fearful scene as soon as they did. She succored survivors snd aided tho rescuers in every possible way. Those on board that fated vessel who perienced her devoted care will never PR ——— forget Mrs. Paterson. Both officers and crew of the Coloma declare they would have been food for the fishes If f{t had not been for her. As a testimonial to this almost un- dented deed of heroism, Captain din, agent of marine, has written the Canadian Government, narrat- tale of Mrs. Paterson’s cour- age; United States Consul A. B. Smith has sent in a detalled report, and shipping men are earnestly endeavor- ing to secure for Mrs. Paterson and the boat’s crew of the Quadra the Humane Soclety's life-saving medal in recognition of the splendid services rendered. The members of the Colo- ma's crew are also anxious to present Mis. Paterson with a testimonial of r gratitude, and a movement is on foot to secure it. Cape Beale Lighthouse Mrs. Paterson i= but twenty-nine vears old, and a Canadian by birth, having first seen the light in Brighton, Ontario. short visit to Central America, but the maln part of her life has been spent in - Victoria, British Columbia. e has been thirteen years marrled, has a family of five children, all m live with her at Cape Beals lighthouse, where Mrs. Paterson and her husband have. made their home for the past eleven years. The light- house, an {deal spot in summer, is almost inaccessible in winter, owing to the " terrific seas prevailing on that coast. Btill Mrs. Paterson llkes it, though the dreadful shipwrecks which bave occurred during her husband’s in- cumbency have heen enough to shake the stoutest merve. In every omne of these wrecks Mrs. Paterson has lent her ald; caring for the survivors, nurs- ing the wounded, sending news to the nearest station, and now she has ac- When a child she made a * TOLESS BO I ; S 5 7 I complished the crowning task of all— & five-mile journey on a wild and rag- ing night over a trafl that it takes & man two hours and a half to make in the best weather; and all done with the willingness, sympathy and pluek that have made the survivors of the Coloma her grateful friends forever. The Timber Cruiser, Who Spies Out the Forest N the halcyon days of lumbering in the Pacific Northwest the railrosd and the big sawmill company went into the forest and acquired stumpage by the township. The business tn those good old days was carried on by the wholesale. But times have changed sadly, and the virgin forest where townships and even counties eould be taken by the first comer no longer exists. The unbroken tracts of tim- ber have given way to the slashings and the burnings, and the ruthless hend of civilization has been lald on the one-time fastness. Wherefore, with the changing of times end condition, there has come more and more into the limelight a character who has always been a ne- cessity, but who now becomes indis- pensable; who is literally the forerun- ner of civilization and the maln prop of the great lumber industry of the Pecific Northwest—the timber cruiser. In a word, under present conditions the timber cruiser is the man who stands between the yet uncut forest and the yawning maw of the sawmill. Primarily the timber cruiser was a man whose business it was to go over a tract of land and report how many mil- lion feet of saw timher there was on it. But with the creation of new lawa designed to protect the timber supply and to bring the settler into the land where once the lumber company held ted away, and with the heavy £ the law many timber hand o placing barons behind prison bars, the timber crulser has become an explorer, a lo- ca;or and an agent. t cannot be disputed that, while the law has done much to protect the tim- ber supply and to allow the settler more chance of procuring a home, there are hundreds, even thounsands, of timber claims acquired by lumber com- panies in & manner by which the ulti- mate result is the same as under the old regime. The only difference is that it takes some time longer; the result is implied, not avowed. There is the element of legality about it which can- not be denfed. The timber crulser cannot be sald to be an open party to the transfer, but he is doubtless well aware that many of the clajms will find their way into the possession of the lumber company, ang the locator will get perhaps $1000 for his trouble. In these days it {s the common practice for persons who have a little spare time and money to-take up & timber claim, acquire title in ninety days, and in a short time turn it over to the lumber company at a price ranging from $1000 to $3000 for choice prowg. Under the timber and stone - act e prevailin, claims {s $3.50 an acre, or f«o for 180 acres. Should: the locator desire-to hold his property as an investment, it is a gilt edge proposition, for lumber ing in price and will do for many years to dome, in the opinion then of timber men in the Pacifio Northwest. Having had brought home to them in a forcible manner in the fraud cases in the danger o behind the price for . . #1ve a fairly good -1t by his maps and is resdy to tell how advanc- . come to depend largely on the “free lance” cruiser for mcquiring new lands. The Pacific Northwest is full of com- panies that are building for the future and acquiring all the stumpage that can be.had. Where they formerly took what was brought to them, they now 80 out after timber, ard go after it hard. There is where the “free lance” cruyjser comes {n. Senator Mitchell and his associates in Oregon were convictetl on the ground that they induced per- 80ns to go in and locate claims with a tacit understanding. that they were to be turned over for a certain consider- ation. Under the new conditions where the timber cruiser is the mediator there is possibly no agreement, either men- tioned or implied. Every old woodsman knows in & general way in what parts of the coun- try:lle untouched timber. He may net know the quality and the surrounding oonditions, but it is his task to seek out and explore. Equipped with a eompass, his map and his pack, the oruiser starts in the. direction where he thinks there 18 & chance to make a “strike.” Should he be lucky enough to find a'good trast of timber he goes over it in a general ‘way and sizes it up so &8 to b le to aqoount. He locates claims he usually has not long to walit, and soon many are started in the di- rection of the latest “strike.” Having sought out and sized up a new territory the next concern of the cruiser is to get people started that way. This 1s done in a manner that comes easy because of the eagerness of people ‘to seek claims. The word gets around in a general way, as all news wiHl filter through the public. An es- tablished cruiser has a standing much the same as the lawyer or physicla: only of course his clients sre alway: new ones, for a timber claim onoce taken bars the man from turning the trick egain. Any one in lumber circles can direct a prospective locator to a erutser who is willing to undertake the job. Happy the times when hg strikes the lonely hut of the trader and trapper in the snow-covered fo; One incident always referred to by W. M. Scribner, a ‘well known timber cruiser of the Pa- cific ‘Northwest, a8 his “chacolate sup- per,” shows how one may easily be lost within a short distance of his camp. “It was down in Eastern Oregon,” says Scribner. “I knew there was some timber in that part of the country, but I did not know the quality or extent, 80 I loaded my pack and started there far it is from by in the winter time. .I finally located rallroad a: by twl‘.ug; and eliked Z _what appeared to be & good _tract of self as to the ty and Kind - He m and pitched my . camp and - 8008 back to Spokans,. to explove it. I made mywelf as Beattle, Portland, or wherever his ; camfortable as-possible, for the weather of operations may be. . He is ‘ready . WS very bitter. I.setarted out one to nm‘mm azd give. ¢ :-:-m%’ it &"%hw‘: days u'.'...g;."‘".i"m-' % ?mm i 'T-tramped: 3 than I had intended. and when I started back about 4 o'clock, the snow had be- gun to fall and the weather was much colder. Darkness came on, #~d I finally got lost. The trees and hills all loooked e, soon & good firs of dark 1y, dut I eould not go to sleep because 1 was s0. hungry. ' As I rolled around my band struck something bard in my R t,:vm’x'um' in my coat. A hungry man has Wwits, and I began to cast around to if an ng could be donme. the tents out of the can of dry bark after opening It pocketknife. I then placed the the fire and filled it with snow until had it about half full of boiling water. Then ‘nu c!xolz;o‘l:u. Some peo- 0 not chocolate, but Il admit I do: I liked !t that minuge, and I have liked it ever aince turned into my nest and slept soundly. The next morning when daylight came od over a little and found - s from "